• Roberto Gentile

    UCL Risk and Disaster Reduction

    About me

  • Roberto J. Merino

    Improving seismic resilience of critical facilities by enhanced assessment of non-structural elements

    Supervisors: Carmine Galasso, Roberto Gentile

    UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering

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  • Giulia Giuliani

    Seismic retrofit of existing steel frames with buckling-restrained braces: life-cycle costs and losses

    Supervisors: Fabio Freddi, Roberto Gentile

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  • Eben Elyada Ezer

    Intermodal freight rerouting in co-exposed road-rail networks under seismic disruption

    Supervisor: Roberto Gentile

  • Jirapat Watchawong

    A systematic protocol to evaluate earthquake vulnerability models

    Supervisors: Roberto Gentile, Gemma Cremen

  • Umut Lağap

    Deep learning on satellite imagery for post-disaster damage and recovery monitoring

    Supervisors: Saman Ghaffarian, Roberto Gentile

    UCL Risk and Disaster Reduction · 2022–

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  • Ali Atici

    Characterising the vulnerability of the built environment to tomorrow's hurricane hazards

    Supervisors: Gemma Cremen, Roberto Gentile

    UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering · 2024–

  • Raynard Magehema

    Enhancing river crossing resilience in data scarce regions

    Supervisors: Gemma Cremen, Roberto Gentile

  • Shivalinga Baddipalli

    Multi-level loss assessment approaches for buildings

    Supervisors: Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati, Roberto Gentile

    Utah State University · 2024–

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  • Abbas Fathiazar

    Harmonised flood and earthquake risk assessment and multi-hazard mitigation

    Supervisors: Serena Cattari, Roberto Gentile

    University of Genoa · Visited UCL

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  • Anthea Amato

    Direct loss-based retrofit of RC frames using fluid viscous dampers

    Supervisors: Liborio Cavaleri, Giuseppe Quaranta, Roberto Gentile

    University of Palermo · Visited UCL

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  • Paolo Andrea Miglietta

    Probabilistic lifecycle-based framework for seismic resilience assessment of road networks

    Supervisors: Gianni Blasi, Roberto Gentile

    University of Salento · Visited UCL

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  • Luca Tosolini

    Vulnerability framework and integrated flow-structure modelling techniques for evaluating flood impacts on the built environment

    Supervisors: Marco Donà, Roberto Gentile

    University of Padua · Visited UCL

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  • Rosalinda Arcoraci

    Modelling building-to-building variability through parametric fragility curves

    Supervisors: Ivo Caliò, Annalisa Greco, Carmine Galasso

    University of Catania

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  • Sukh Shukla

    Drishti: a vision transformer framework for building classification in natural hazard exposure modelling

    Supervisors: Dhanya J, Roberto Gentile

    Indian Institute of Technology Mandi

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  • Qinhao Gao

    Practice-oriented seismic fragility assessment of masonry-infilled reinforced concrete frames considering pulse-like effects

    Supervisors: Fabrizio Mollaioli, Giuseppe Quaranta, Roberto Gentile

    Sapienza University of Rome

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  • Matteo Polucci

    Towards a building design approach directly targeting earthquake and wind risk metrics

    Supervisors: Francesco Petrini, Roberto Gentile

    Sapienza University of Rome

  • Andrea Nettis

    Regional scale seismic performance assessment of RC bridges based on remote sensing techniques

    Supervisors: Giuseppina Uva, Roberto Gentile

    Polytechnic University of Bari · 2018–2022

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  • Livio Pedone

    Pre- and post-earthquake safety evaluation and loss assessment of reinforced concrete buildings

    Supervisors: Stefano Pampanin, Carmine Galasso, Roberto Gentile

    Sapienza University of Rome · Visited UCL in 2021

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  • Karim Aljawhari

    Holistic seismic rehabilitation: integrating sustainability, direct, and indirect losses in risk-targeted retrofit design and optimisation

    Supervisors: Carmine Galasso, Roberto Gentile

    UCL and IUSS Pavia · 2020–2024

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  • Kenneth Otárola

    From seismic to multi-hazard: modelling dynamic physical vulnerability for risk assessment

    Supervisors: Carmine Galasso, Roberto Gentile

    UCL and IUSS Pavia · 2020–2025

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Dr Roberto GentileAssociate ProfessorCatastrophe Risk Modelling · UCL

I provide tools that allow engineers to use quantified risk as a metric for design, and risk modellers to improve their estimates using advanced engineering methods.

I co-direct the DE|RISC Lab at UCL.

I am the founder of OpenVulnerability.

I'm available for consultancy in risk modelling, especially for seismic and flood fragility and vulnerability models, damage and loss estimates for buildings and infrastructure. I also advise on the seismic assessment and retrofit of reinforced-concrete structures.

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PhD in Earthquake EngineeringChartered Civil Engineer (Italy)

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